federal land, and the land adjacent to our neighborhood. so we want the federal government to focus on making sure that those parks are great for people, that their fountains work. they not all do. that their hours support what people want. so there are a lot of costs. i know that that number just came out. we don t know what our total local costs will be. if we have extraordinary police costs, for example, we will seek that reimbursement from the federal government. if there are demonstrations and protests that sprout up around these activities, those are additional police costs as well. so we don t know what our total costs are yet. and congresswoman, the pentagon officials have also been asked to participate to be there on the mall on the stage in front of the lincoln memorial for what is the first presidential address on july 4th i believe since harry true man during war time. what about that? a lot of the vice chairs are
had to divert $2.5 million to cover the event. trump still owes d.c. $7.3 million for his inauguration. the district s mayor talked earlier about how unusual this is. watch. the city has not been repaid $7.3 million of the costs from the trump inaugural. right. and that s unusual. we don t know what our total local costs will be. if we have extraordinary police costs, for example, we will seek that reimbursement from the federal government. so trump has ordered the country s top military leaders to stand beside him during the celebration. flyovers by air force one and other jets will cause reagan national airport to ground flights for 1 1/2 hours. trump seems intent on mimicking the kind of military event favored by dictators like vladimir putin and kim jong-un. protests are expected and we might see an appearance from the trump baby blimp last seen during the protests in london.
basically said, you guys, we are almost home, we all want to go, wait for us. so there s no specific new date set yet for the twin cities parade for the end of the iraq war, but we are told they are aiming for late july. we will let you know when we know more. also, richmond, virginia, richmond, virginia s end to the iraq war parade is set for may 19. there has been some worry richmond wouldn t be able to pull it off. they needed to raise money to cover the costs, particularly the police costs, of the event. organizers had set the rather intimidating goal of raising $50,000 for the richmond, virginia, parade by today. today was their deadline. and they hit it. so the parade is on. again, may 19th, itch richmond, virginia. they need to raise some money for costs of the event, but at least they now they can cover police reports for the parade. so it is on the calendar in pen. the first of the parades was in st. louis. then there was a big one in tucson. there was another big one in hou
you guys, we are almost home. we all want to go. wait for us. so there s no specific new date set yet for the end of the iraq war parade but they are aiming for late july. we will let you know when we know more. also, richmond, virginia. richmond, virginia, end of the iraq war is set for may 19th. there had been worry that richmond wouldn t be able to pull it off. they needed to raise money for the costs, particularly the police costs, needing to raise $50,000 for the parade by today. today was their deadline and they hit it. so the parade is on. again, may 19th, richmond, virginia. they need to raise some more money for costs of the event but at least they now now they can cover the cost of the police support for the parade and it s on the calendar in pen. the first of these parades was in st. louis. then there was a big one in tucson. there was another big one in houston. last weekend this was the scene at melbourn, florida.
lead who has taken over our democracy to pull back and share power and wealth with the rest of us. this economy is not working for ordinary americans. that s what these protests are all about. look, yes yeah, protests are expensive. lots of police costs. no question about it but if we don t address the fact that our economy is so unfair, we re going to see more of this. this is the face of what may be to come. laura: 44% of americans in the latest rasmussen poll say these protesters do not represent the mainstream. i think about 33% say they do. i think they are hurting their case at this point. maybe not in the beginning. at this point it s time to wrap it up and turn it into a political two thirds of americans say they re concerned about inequality. i think they have helped put this on the agenda. they want to be able to drive through their cities without a huge traffic jam and have their police force not abused. i think they want that as well. democracy can be messy. lau